Women of the earth lodges : tribal life on the plains

Type

Book

Authors

Virginia Bergman Peters ( Peters, Virginia Bergman )

ISBN 10

0208022198

ISBN 13

9780208022196

Tags

Mandan women -- Social life and customs, Hidatsa women -- Social life and customs, Arikara women -- Social life and customs, Mandan women, Hidatsa women, Arikara women, Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Indigenous women

Description

"Skilled farming by women of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara peoples of the upper Missouri in the 19th and 19th centuries produced a food surplus which made possible leisure time for male ceremony, and a continental trade network fostered by the linguistic abilities of women traders. Peters uses women's accounts, the strong oral tradition of the people, their myth and creation stories, and anthropological and archeological data to examine these cultures. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or."--Amazon.ca.

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